this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2024
20 points (91.7% liked)

Selfhosted

40183 readers
872 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

  1. Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.

  2. No spam posting.

  3. Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.

  4. Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.

  5. Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).

  6. No trolling.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
ruud@lemmy.world
Loki@lemmy.world
CannaVet@lemmy.world
HybridSarcasm@lemmy.world
devve@lemmy.world
HybridSarcasm@lemmy.hybridsarcasm.xyz
20
VPN speed (lemm.ee)
submitted 10 months ago by rambos@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
14 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Hello selfhosters,

I recently moved to a new place with faster internet (320/130 Mbps) and now I see that VPN is limiting my torrent speed.

I was testing multiple AirVPN (wireguard) servers and I'm getting 80-120 Mbps on speedtest-cli, but in torrents it goes bit higher to about 180-200 Mbps. I usually use it trought gluetun container, but was also testing with eddie-cli and I get pretty much the same results.

I was reading that people get 600 Mbps and even 1+ Gbps on AirVPN. What is your experience? If this is AirVPN limit, what would you suggest as alternative with port forwarding to saturate my bandwidth? I can live with these speeds, just want to check if there is better alternative or something missconfigured on my side.

Cheers

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Toes@ani.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You mentioned that your cpu is getting maxed out on wireguard. That makes a lot of sense since it's generally not hardware accelerated, old low end CPUs could struggle here.

What choices do you have for protocols with your VPN software?

Try AES128 UDP mode with openVPN.

[–] rambos@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I want to use glueten container, but I'm flexible about everything else. I can try openVPN server, but not sure what AES128 means (I know its some kind of encryption, but don't know how to use that in my case). There are many different servers to chose, Ill try few with UDP openVPN. thanks

[–] Toes@ani.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ok in that case. The goal is to use a cipher suite that works well on your device that is still secure. AES is accelerated on most processors these days. But you'll want to confirm that by looking up your specific cpu (both host and client machines!) and checking for AES acceleration.

AES-128-GCM would be my suggestion.

UDP mode provides less overhead, so it should be faster for you.

Alternatively you could use IPsec instead of openvpn but that's a chore to configure. But it has the benefit of being free and being natively supported by many devices.

You would still want to configure an appropriate cipher suite that's fast and secure.

[–] rambos@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My CPU (g3930) supports Intel AES New Instructions if thats it. Ill look more into it, thank you

[–] Toes@ani.social 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah give that a go. Glad to help 🙂